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At any rate, I find it amusing that you're so quick to label Riley Cooper an irredeemable ****head racist over one comment. He might well be; I just think it's funny.

The point is not that Cooper is definitively a racist, only that it's not improbably that a racist could be in the league for years despite working alongside black people, which is what you were arguing.

You know I've just gone through irlr1994 -- or what his name is -- posts and I actually believe this guy is either Incognito or someone close to him. He only talks about the offensive line, praises Jeff Darlington (who Richie "trusted" to write the big feature on Richie) and constantly refers to Jason Smith, the legendary #2 overall draft pick bust of the Rams, who was taken when Incognito was there.

Go back and read through the posts before he or she deletes them. It's striking.

Any black guy on a predominantly white team... or any white guy that's played sports on a predominantly black team has faced "racially tinged" stuff. It happens.

Yes. I've had racial comments uttered at me in practice or on the field by people who I knew weren't really bigots. And likewise, said things to people in kind. I always kind of assumed that was how it was for everyone, because all of my buddies had the same experience at some point.

Originally Posted by TheWalrus

The point is not that Cooper is definitively a racist, only that it's not improbably that a racist could be in the league for years despite working alongside black people, which is what you were arguing.

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. What I should have said, is that I think it's improbable that it hasn't surfaced by now. If Richie really is a racist, and knowing how incredibly poor his impulse control is, there has to be more evidence of this out there. Why is this just coming out now? I mean, this guy has about as much self control as a herd of rabid feral cats...

Last week, my friend had to explain to his four year old adopted black son what the n-word is. The kid he heard it from didn't know what it meant, he just knew that my friend's son was one.

I'm sure that was a fun conversation, explaining to his kid why people think he's an inferior creature because of the way he looks. Of course, that's different from Jonathan Martin...by now I'm sure Martin has been called a ****** hundreds of times. Maybe thousands, given that he's been playing football in front of large crowds for years now. So he should really be over that. It's not like Richie tried to treat him like an inferior creature. I mean, other than shaking him down for money, talking **** and refusing to sit with him, but those are all hilarious antics meant to be in good fun.